Steam has Steam Deck Handheld Portable Gaming Computer PC (Valve Certified Refurbished, Various Capacities) on sale from $279 Now-> from $319. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member prfsr for finding this deal.
The same one year warranty as a new Steam Deck (unless longer as determined by your country of residence)
A refurbished power supply - fully tested (may have minor cosmetic marks)
Carrying case and Quick Start guide
Features:
Portability meets power. We partnered with AMD to create Steam Deck's custom APU, optimized for handheld gaming. It is a Zen 2 + RDNA 2 powerhouse, delivering more than enough performance to run the latest AAA games in a very efficient power envelope.
Your Steam Library, anywhere. Once you've logged into Steam Deck, your entire Steam Library shows up, just like any other PC. You'll also see the compatibility rating of each game, indicating the kind of experience you can expect when playing. You can dynamically filter any view in your library by compatibility rating if you're looking for specific sorts of experiences.
Control with comfort. The Steam Deck was built for extended play sessions—whether you're using thumbsticks or trackpads—with full-size controls positioned perfectly within your reach. The rear of the device is sculpted to comfortably fit a wide range of hand sizes.
Here's a trick I learned. When you are screwing it back together, rotate backwards first slowly. Once you feel the screw 'drop', then you know you are aligned back in the original threads. Then screw it back in. Works everytime without any extra damage to the threads,
too bad no OLED refurbs yet
smart. 1TB NVMe so cheap easy to upgrade.
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I was thinking of grabbing the 64, add a new drive then hooking it all up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse as a cheap gaming pc for helldivers. Thoughts?
I was thinking of grabbing the 64, add a new drive then hooking it all up to a monitor, keyboard and mouse as a cheap gaming pc for helldivers. Thoughts?
People don't know that SD cards are not meant for constant reading and writing, that is the worst thing to do to. They are not as durable as silicon based SSD.
Beyond the cloud gaming, though, can the SD play actual Xbox games that need to be downloaded?
Ignore the one naysayer; you can, but it'll be annoying. You'll have to install Windows on your Steam Deck to get access to it, as the windows store doesn't support Linux. What people seem to do from my 10 minutes of googling is upgrade to a sizable SSD, then format it so one half of the SSD is for SteamOS, and the other is for Windows. Then, they install Windows on an SD card to boot from whenever they want to play Gamepass games. You can probably also just forgo the SD card install and dual-boot on the same large SSD; I imagine that's probably preferable since the OS will be constantly pulling from the SD card, but there's probably some reason people use the SD card instead.
There are tutorials for it online. If you haven't done anything like this before, it might sound super advanced, but it's ultimately like an annoying afternoon project.
People don't know that SD cards are not meant for constant reading and writing, that is the worst thing to do to. They are not as durable as silicon based SSD.
Most people in this section mean "Steam Deck" when they say "SD".
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That's what it looks like
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There are tutorials for it online. If you haven't done anything like this before, it might sound super advanced, but it's ultimately like an annoying afternoon project.
I think they will actually open it up and install a larger SSD instead.
best microsd cards for steam deck [rockpapershotgun.com]
Bought Friday 64 gb and received it Wednesday I'm in Michigan
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I bought the 512GB Monday and it still hasn't shipped. Kind of annoying because I was hoping I'd have it by the weekend.